Campeche, Mexico: pupils accuse a high-school classmate of making AI nude images of female classmates and protest school inaction, a local paper reports
La Jornada Maya reported on 5 October 2026 that pupils at an upper-secondary school (preparatoria) in Campeche, Mexico, accused a classmate of making images of female classmates without clothes using digital applications, which the paper describes as AI used to make obscene photos and as images that are not real photos but use the girls' faces. The pupils reported him to teachers and administrators. According to the paper, no action to protect the girls was known, and on Monday classmates and some of the affected girls protested during the school's official ceremony, where the sound was cut off when they tried to use the microphone. Afternoon-shift pupils later held a peaceful demonstration at the school entrance and parents were seeking a response. No complaint to prosecutors or police is reported.
- AI system
- Unidentified image tool
- Occurred
- Event date unknown
- Reported
- 5 October 2026
- Event location
- Mexico
- What the AI did
- Depicted or impersonated the person
- Reported harm
- Exploitation or Abuse
- Whose AI use
- Someone else’s AI use
- Setting
- Education · Privacy
- Evidence
- AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source
- 5 claims: 5 reported. 4 open questions
- People reported harmed
- Not reliably quantifiable from the sources
AI system as recorded: Unidentified digital applications that, according to La Jornada Maya, a pupil used to make images of female classmates without clothes, which the paper attributes to AI
What Happened
The accusation. La Jornada Maya reports that pupils at a preparatoria in Campeche accused a classmate of making images of female classmates without clothes with digital applications. The paper opens by saying that AI used to make obscene photos has reached the school, and later describes the images as not real photos but as images that use the girls' faces. The pupils noticed the images themselves; they do not know why he made them or why he had them on his tablet. They accused him before teachers and administrators.
The protests. According to the paper, no action protecting the girls was known. On Monday classmates and some of the affected girls protested during the school's official ceremony, with teachers and the principal present; when they tried to use the microphone, the sound was switched off. Pupils of the afternoon shift then held a peaceful demonstration at the school entrance in support, and parents were seeking answers and protection for the girls.
Limits. One local report. It does not name the application, say how many girls were depicted, or say whether the images were shared beyond the pupil's tablet. No response from the school or the accused pupil is reported, and no police or prosecutor complaint is mentioned.
Reported harm
Female pupils in Campeche were depicted without clothes in images that a classmate is accused of making with AI apps, according to La Jornada Maya; pupils protested the school's lack of action.
Outcome
UnknownPupils accused the classmate before teachers and administrators. La Jornada Maya reports that the school management had taken no known action to establish responsibility or protect the girls, that pupils protested during the official ceremony and at the school entrance, and that parents were seeking a response. No police or prosecutor complaint is reported.
What remains unknown
- Which application was used and how many girls were depicted.
- Whether the images were shared beyond the pupil's tablet.
- The school's and the accused pupil's response.
- Whether a complaint was made to police or prosecutors.
What the evidence supports
AI involvement: reported. La Jornada Maya reports that pupils accused a classmate of making images of female classmates without clothes with digital applications, describes this as AI used to make obscene photos, and says the images are not real photos but use the girls' faces. The generated images depict the girls (depicted_or_impersonated). The application is not named and no forensic finding is reported.
5 claims: 5 reported. What the statuses mean
Reported Pupils accused a classmate of making images of female classmates without clothes with digital applications; the paper describes this as AI used to make obscene photos.
Causal attribution. The pupils' accusation as reported by one local paper; the application is unnamed.
- lajornadamaya.mx(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
'La Inteligencia Artificial (IA) para hacer fotos obscenas ha alcanzado a la escuela preparatoria'; 'alumnos denunciaron a un compañero que realiza imágenes de compañeras sin ropa con aplicaciones digitales'
Reported The paper says the images are not real photos and use the girls' faces.
Causal attribution. The paper's description, given in a passage on the state's digital-harassment law; no examination of the images is reported.
- lajornadamaya.mx(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
'al no ser una foto real y usar la cara de sus compañeras'
Reported The pupils accused the classmate before teachers and administrators, and no action to protect the girls was known.
Causal attribution. One local paper; no school response is reported.
- lajornadamaya.mx(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
'lo acusaron con docentes y administrativos de la preparatoria, sin que hasta ahora se tenga conocimiento de acciones que protejan la integridad de las jóvenes'
Reported On Monday classmates and some of the affected girls protested during the school's official ceremony, and the sound was switched off when they tried to use the microphone.
Causal attribution. One local paper.
- lajornadamaya.mx(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
'sus compañeros de clase y algunas de las afectadas protestaron en medio del homenaje oficial de la escuela'; 'los encargados del sonido apagaron el audio'
Reported Afternoon-shift pupils held a peaceful demonstration at the school entrance in support, and parents were seeking a response and protection for the girls.
Causal attribution. One local paper.
- lajornadamaya.mx(opens in new tab) supports · Spanish
'los alumnos del turno vespertino respaldaron a sus compañeros del matutino con una manifestación pacífica a la entrada de la escuela'; 'el reclamo ya llegó a padres de familias que están buscando respuesta'
Sources
1 source inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.
- La Jornada Maya, 5 October 2026: Campeche pupils accuse a high-school classmate of making AI nude images of female classmates(opens in new tab)
s1 · lajornadamaya.mx · News report · Spanish · Inspected · 5 October 2026 · Primary
How the sources were read, and where the events happened
Read in Spanish by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-06 (La Jornada Maya, Campeche section, dated 05/10/2026, San Francisco de Campeche; HTTP 200); no human translator reviewed it. English renderings are the agent's own. 'Denunciaron' is rendered as accused or reported to staff, because the report describes an accusation to teachers and administrators and no complaint to prosecutors. The cited URL uses a shortened slug that omits the school's name and serves the same article (HTTP 200, 2026-10-06); the record does not repeat the school's name; the page's related-article list is not used. Applies to s1.
Event countries: Mexico. Affected-person countries: Mexico. Court countries: Unknown.
La Jornada Maya reports the accusation and protests at an upper-secondary school in Campeche, Mexico, under a San Francisco de Campeche dateline. No court step is reported.
Reviewed for publication 2026-10-06: A local paper reports that pupils accused a classmate of making nude images of female classmates with AI apps and protested the school's inaction. One report; all claims are reported, and the school, the accused pupil and the girls are left unidentified.
People described
Female pupils at an upper-secondary school in Campeche, described by the paper as minors (not identified in the report)
People reported harmed in this case
Not reliably quantifiable from the sources
La Jornada Maya speaks of female classmates and of some of the affected girls in the plural but gives no number. No reliable count; zero placeholders.
Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.
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APA
NOPE. (2026). Campeche, Mexico: pupils accuse a high-school classmate of making AI nude images of female classmates and protest school inaction, a local paper reports. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-campeche-high-school-pupils-accuse-classmate-of-ai-nude-images-of-girls
BibTeX
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title = {Campeche, Mexico: pupils accuse a high-school classmate of making AI nude images of female classmates and protest school inaction, a local paper reports},
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url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-campeche-high-school-pupils-accuse-classmate-of-ai-nude-images-of-girls}
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